page_title: The White Man's Burden
hierarchical_section_title: The White Man's Burden
caption_attribution_description: English: This cartoon depicts a representation of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem The White Man's Burden. Originally published in February, 1899 the poem's philosophy quickly developed as the United States response to annexation of the Philippines. The United States used the "white man's burden" as an argument for imperial control of the Philippines and Cuba on the basis of moral necessity. It was now the United States' moral duty to develop and modernize the conquest lands in order to help carry the foreign barbarians to civilization. Русский: «Бремя белого человека» — Джон Булль и Дядя Сэм, тащат цветные народы к Цивилизации. Карикатура Виктора Гиллама, журнал Judge 1 апреля 1899.
context_page_description: “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands”, by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War, which exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country. Originally written to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the jingoistic poem was replaced with the sombre “Recessional”, also a Kipling poem about empire.
  In “The White Man’s Burden”, Kipling encouraged American colonisation and annexation of the Philippine Islands, a Pacific Ocean archipelago conquered in the three-month Spanish–American War. As a poet of imperialism, Kipling exhorts the American reader and listener to take up the enterprise of empire, yet warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire; nonetheless, American imperialists understood the phrase the white man’s burden to justify imperial conquest as a mission-of-civilisation that is ideologically related to the continental-expansion philosophy of Manifest Destiny of the early 19th century.
context_section_description: “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands” (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902), which exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country. Originally written to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (22 June 1897), the jingoistic poem was replaced with the sombre “Recessional” (1897), also a Kipling poem about empire. 
  In “The White Man’s Burden”, Kipling encouraged American colonisation and annexation of the Philippine Islands, a Pacific Ocean archipelago conquered in the three-month Spanish–American War (1898). As a poet of imperialism, Kipling exhorts the American reader and listener to take up the enterprise of empire, yet warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire; nonetheless, American imperialists understood the phrase the white man’s burden to justify imperial conquest as a mission-of-civilisation that is ideologically related to the continental-expansion philosophy of Manifest Destiny of the early 19th century.
caption: John Bull (Great Britain) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) bear “The White Man’s Burden” (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)", by delivering the coloured peoples of the world to civilization. (Victor Gillam, Judge magazine, 1 April 1899)
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